Poverty and American National Priorities

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Panelists Eric Gregory, professor of religion at Princeton University, Susan Crawford Sullivan, assistant professor of sociology and Edward Bennett Williams Fellow at the College of the Holy Cross, and William Julius Wilson, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, discuss poverty in the U.S. and the ways in which we (the government and citizenry) act to alleviate it.

Erik Owens, associate director of the Boisi Center and adjunct assistant professor of theology and international studies at Boston College, moderates the panel discussion.